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Add power on short final to hold 85 kt over the threshold.
What happened: Threshold speed was 8 kt slow at 77 kt, and the flare began late at 2.2 ft, well below the normal band. Crossing slow and flaring late like this usually leaves little energy and time to check the sink, and the touchdown then comes in firm.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 85 kt at the threshold
You crossed the threshold slow. Without the speed there is little energy left to round out with, so the flare comes up short and the touchdown tends to be firm - and that feels exactly like flaring too late. Resist the fix that feels natural, flaring earlier: it bleeds off more speed and makes the next landing firmer still. Fly the approach speed all the way to the threshold, and the flare has something to work with.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 76 kt, 8 kt below the 84 kt target, and lifted off at 82 kt 2.8 s later, the nose coming up at 2.8° a second.
Two traces from brake release: the airspeed on top, and below it the pitch, which is how far the nose is above the horizon. The dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 58 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,481 m of runway left.
The takeoff from the side: the height above the runway against the distance along it. The numbers along the runway are the speeds reached at each point. Lifting off in the amber last quarter of the runway costs marks for the roll length.
Plan view the roll down the 3,284 m runway.
Rolled from 82 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 3.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.3 m left. Airborne 19 % of the way down the runway, before the 75 % line.
The roll from above, with your left at the top. The line is where the wheels went, and "widest" is the furthest you drifted off the centreline. Lifting off before the amber 75 % line gets full marks for the roll length. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
Right-hand, 1,000 ft circuit height. The plan shows your circuit over a textbook one for this runway; the profile unrolls the same path from liftoff to the threshold.
Plan landing direction to the left; in pale blue the textbook circuit for your downwind speed, 1.3 nm out at 131 kt
The lap from above, with the landing direction to the left: the opposite of the runway drawings. The wide pale-blue line is a textbook circuit for your downwind speed - the downwind a mile out for every 100 kt, every turn at 30° of bank - and your track is drawn over it, each leg in the colour of its mark. The numbers are the four turns, the same as on the profile and the cards below. The 45° line from the threshold is the usual point to turn onto base.
Around the circuit height and bank; the turns are shaded
The same lap straightened out, so the height and the bank can be read together. Each shaded stretch is a turn, numbered as on the plan. The green box is circuit height, 1,000 ft, on the downwind. The amber line is 30° of bank, and a turn's steepest bank shows red above 32°. "Turn crosswind from" is the lowest height to start the first turn at.
Early: turned crosswind before the end of the runway, at 757 ft.
Upwind (departure). Climb straight ahead on the extended centreline. Don't turn early. A curved departure leg makes every subsequent leg unrepeatable.
Read more in Pattern WorkGood: full marks on the turn and the leg after it.
Good: full marks on the turn and the leg after it.
Good: full marks on the turn.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 1.9 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 160 ft above the slope.
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 305 m past the threshold: 3° here, which is about 320 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 50 ft. The row under the distances is the height it puts you at. Inside the green band your path is drawn green; outside it, amber.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 594 m right of the centreline at 1.9 nm, then inside the band from 0.9 nm to the threshold.
Looking down from above, flying left to right towards the runway: up the page is left of the centreline, down is right. Sideways distances are stretched so that small drifts show, so a line that looks wild here may be only a few tens of feet. The labels are how far off you were at each distance, amber when outside the band.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 43 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 26 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 1.9 nm, where the final began, to 1.2 nm, then slow to 0.6 nm (up to −7 kt), then inside the band to 0.4 nm, then slow to the threshold (up to −8 kt).
Your indicated airspeed down the final, against the approach speed for this aircraft at its landing weight. The band allows 5 kt slow and more on the fast side further out, closing as you get lower, because the speed is expected to come off on the way down. The figures are knots above (+) or below (−) the approach speed.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
The flare strayed well off the target profile. The flare began at 2 ft agl above the runway, lower than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 415 m past the threshold. Begin raising the nose earlier - a late flare leaves no time to arrest the sink.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 6° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 001° at 3 kt · 1 kt head · 2 kt across
The wind is the one recorded at the landing, split along the runway (headwind or tailwind) and across it. To hold the centreline in a crosswind the nose points a little into wind - the crab - and is straightened with rudder just before the wheels touch, often with the into-wind wing lowered to stop the drift. These are the nose against the direction you were actually moving, and the wings, at the moment of touchdown. Shown for reading; not marked.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 51 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 2 ft. Touched down 415 m in, 110 m past the ideal 305 m.
The last stretch of the approach and the touchdown, from the side. The height is stretched so that the last few feet show: 80 ft top to bottom, against 1,524 m across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 305 m in. The flare ring is where you began raising the nose, and "descent slowed" is where the sink came off; the figures beside them are the sink rate, pitch and speed at that point.
Sink and pitch — through the flare, lined up with the side view.
The sink stayed between 210 fpm and 300 fpm from the flare to the runway. The nose came up 0.6° on the way down.
Lined up with the side view above, so a point on one sits under the same point of the other. On top, how fast you were coming down: 0 is level, and −600 is 600 ft a minute down. Below, the pitch. In a flare the nose comes up and the descent slows towards 0. The figure at the touchdown line is your touchdown rate.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,284 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline.
The runway from above, with your left at the top. Touching down inside the green bracket scores full marks for the distance. The shaded part is the rollout, up to where it ended. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 415 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 293 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Diamond DA62 taxied from the parking area to runway 05R at NZAA Auckland International Airport in 1 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 05R, the aircraft accelerated to a liftoff speed of 82 kt and left the ground after a takeoff run of 632 m, representing 19 % of the runway length; ambient temperature was 33 °C with a wind of 3 kt from 1°, a cross-wind component of 3 kt and a head-wind component of 1 kt.
A right-hand pattern entry was flown from runway 05R, the leg extending less than 1 nm and being completed in 49 seconds.
Subsequently, the aircraft executed a right-hand pattern crosswind leg from runway 05R, again covering less than 1 nm in 19 seconds.
The downwind turn was performed at an angle of 111.8° to the runway, traversing a distance of 1 nm.
The downwind leg continued for 3 nm and was flown in 76 seconds.
A base-leg turn followed, with a 45° angle to the runway of 36.3° and a distance of 2 nm.
The base leg itself was less than 1 nm long and was completed in 25 seconds.
The final turn to align with the runway covered 1 nm and required 50 seconds.
On final approach to runway 05R, the aircraft descended from 698 ft agl to 61 ft agl over 75 seconds and was recorded as having scored on the stabilisation gates.
Touchdown occurred on runway 05R, whose length is 3 284 m; the threshold height was good, the threshold speed was slightly below the target at 77 kt, touchdown distance measured 414 m, touchdown speed was 72 kt, and the vertical speed at touchdown was minus 293 fpm. Runway alignment at touchdown was perfect, and the weather remained temperature 33 °C, wind 3 kt from 1°, cross-wind 3 kt and head-wind 1 kt.
In total, the flight covered 8 nm, took 5 minutes, and consumed 54 kg of fuel.
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